Tag: UN Decolonization Committee (C24)

Monday, June 24th 2024 - 17:35 UTC
Argentine signs key agreement defending fishing areas beyond national jurisdiction

While in New York Argentine foreign minister Diana Mondino not only participated in the United Nations Decolonization Committee or C24, claiming sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, but also signed a significant international instrument that should help with the plus 201 mile IUU fishing in the South Atlantic.
Thursday, June 20th 2024 - 15:29 UTC
“If you have to deny the existence of a people, your argument does not work”, Falklands reply to Mondino

“If you have to deny the existence of a people to make your argument work, your argument doesn’t work,” has been the public reply of Falkland Islands lawmaker MLA Teslyn Barkman to the piece of Argentina's foreign minister Diana Mondino addressed to Falkland Islanders, during this week's session of the Special Decolonization Committee, or C24, held at the United Nations, New York.
Wednesday, June 19th 2024 - 07:05 UTC
“We want to be us, a free people, practicing self-determination in a democratic country”, Falklands MLA Short

Address to the United Nations Special Committee on the situation with regard to the implementation of the declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples. Also known as the Committee or C24, 18 June 2024. Petition by MLA Gavin Short, member of the Falkland Islands elected Legislative Assembly.
Tuesday, June 18th 2024 - 10:44 UTC
Falklands, Liberation Day, Normandy heroes and awards in the King's Birthday Honors List

June is a most poignant month for the Falkland Islands since on the 14th, the community commemorates the Liberation of the Islands in 1982 after 74 days of occupation by Argentine forces.
Friday, June 14th 2024 - 08:10 UTC
Falklands delegation in US to address decolonization Committee 18th June

The Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly is pleased to share that MLAs Teslyn Barkman and Gavin Short have been in Washington D.C as part of a small Falklands Delegation since Sunday, June 9th, ahead of the UN Committee of 24 on Decolonization on the 18th of June.
Tuesday, June 11th 2024 - 10:44 UTC
First female Gibraltar minister addresses UN Decolonization Committee

Gibraltar Health and Care Minister, Gemma Arias Vasquez, speaking at United Nations headquarters in New York has told the Decolonization Committee of 24 it has failed to engage with Gibraltar for decades. The UN session started on Monday at 9.30 am in New York.
Monday, June 26th 2023 - 10:56 UTC
UK reply to Argentina at OAS, “no dialogue on sovereignty unless the Falkland Islanders wish it”

British Foreign Minister for the Americas and the Caribbean, David Rutley MP gave a statement, on 23 June, to the Organization of America States in response to the Argentine Government's draft declaration on the Falkland Islands:
Monday, August 15th 2022 - 08:57 UTC
Argentine diplomatic offensive on Malvinas question in the region

This week Argentina's Malvinas, Antarctica, and South Atlantic Secretary, Guillermo Carmona is off to Brazil where he has scheduled several conferences and to request greater support for Argentina's claim over the Falkland Islands.
Thursday, June 23rd 2022 - 09:59 UTC
Argentina again requests UN Secretary General's good offices in the Malvinas sovereignty dispute

Ahead of his address to the United Nations Special Decolonization Committee, C24, this Thursday, demanding sovereignty talks with the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands sovereignty, Argentine foreign minister Santiago Cafiero met on Wednesday with US Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
Monday, June 20th 2022 - 09:30 UTC
A numerous Argentine multi-party delegation to UN C24, arrives Wednesday to New York

The Argentine government will be claiming this week before the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization, or C24, the resumption of negotiations with the United Kingdom for a peaceful solution to the sovereignty dispute over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.